"I think that what I knew as a teenager, and what I rediscovered in my mid-forties, was - aside from the primacy of sexual desire and how strongly it rules me - this idea that we are lucky to feel something. Even if that something is sadness."

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Claire Dederer

#Teenager Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Being in love is the only transcendent experience.”

Source : "The loneliest man in Frisco" by Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2000.
“Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.”
“Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.”
“I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.”
“Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.”
“Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.”
“Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild and terrorizing Americans at will. The IRS hypocritically requires mistake-free returns when its own books are in shambles. It demands exorbitant sums of money without regard to the accuracy of its claims. It doesn't hesitate to use every possible maneuver to get what it wants, sometimes destroying businesses -- and lives -- in the process.”
“I don't like going out that much. When I'm out, I think about my couch.”

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